Codeuxius @Codeuxius

Anonymity is a core principle of the open web. This is a terrible decision by the Greek government, one tha paves the road toward authoritarianism. “Toxicity” is not an excuse for total governmental control of free speech. I hope this preposterous idea is retracted.

internet hall of fame @InternetH0F

a month ago

A new law in Greece is being proposed that would ban anonymity on social media The new law would require every person to link their real name in an attempt to reduce online toxicity by making people stand behind their comments

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.@vonderleyen "The European #AgeVerification app is technically ready. It respects the highest privacy standards in the world. It's open-source, so anyone can check the code..." I did. It didn't take long to find what looks like a serious #privacy issue. The app goes to great lengths to protect the AV data AFTER collection (is_over_18: true is AES-GCM'd); it does so pretty well. But, the source image used to collect that data is written to disk without encryption and not deleted correctly. For NFC biometric data: It pulls DG2 and writes a lossless PNG to the filesystem. It's only deleted on success. If it fails for any reason (user clicks back, scan fails & retries, app crashes etc), the full biometric image remains on the device in cache. This is protected with CE keys at the Android level, but the app makes no attempt to encrypt/protect them. For selfie pictures: Different scenario. These images are written to external storage in lossless PNG format, but they're never deleted. Not a cache... long-term storage. These are protected with DE keys at the Android level, but again, the app makes no attempt to encrypt/protect them. This is akin to taking a picture of your passport/government ID using the camera app and keeping it just in case. You can encrypt data taken from it until you're blue in the face... leaving the original image on disk is crazy & unnecessary. From a #GDPR standpoint: Biometric data collected is special category data. If there's no lawful basis to retain it after processing, that's potentially a material breach. youtube.com/watch?v=4VRRri…

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What a time to be alive, it's like the collapse of Rome, but with memes.

Waiting for the EU and China to get in on the blockade action

damn, no more socials for me

AFP News Agency @AFP

2 months ago

BREAKING Greece to ban social media for under 15-year-olds, says prime minister

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Herodotus: "[The Delphic oracle foretold that] if Croesus should make war on the Persians, he would destroy a great empire..he did not understand that the empire meant was his own.”

Adrian Vermeule @Vermeullarmine

2 months ago

One can only think here of what the Delphic oracle said to Croesus of Lydia in the Histories: if you march against the Persians, you will destroy a great empire. I hope someone remembers how this prophecy was fulfilled.

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بارانی از سیاهی و مرگ بر سرمان ریخته است و فرصت عزا نداریم. حالا حتی امیدبخش‌ترین چیزها، نمادهای زندگی نیز، ردی از مرگ بر خود دارند.

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Jesus Christ. It’s not a test. It’s a violation.

The Associated Press @AP

8 months ago

BREAKING: Israel strikes southern Gaza in test of ceasefire. apnews.com/article/israel…

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The Nobel Committee has decided to make the case for Trump’s war on Venezuela, giving its “Peace Prize” to Maria Corina Machado, a US govt-funded regime change activist who’s helped lead failed military coups, violent street riots, and has likely promised her country’s oil and mineral wealth to a consortium of MAGA aligned billionaires in exchange for financing her political arsonism. This icon of peace has even appealed to Benjamin Netanyahu to help her lead a military invasion of Venezuela. Maria Corina Machado is a marionette for Marco Rubio, a creation of the CIA-sponsored Gusano Industrial Complex that has brought violent terror and siege to any Latin American country defying the Washington Consensus of privatization and austerity, and a would-be Pinochet in a skirt. Machado has spent years lobbying for US and EU starvation sanctions on her own country, resulting in waves of migration to the US, fueling the nativist resentment that gave rise to Trump. When Trump shipped Venezuelan migrants to a torture camp in El Salvador this year, Machado predictably sided with Trump, the main sponsor of her putchist career, over her countrymen. Giving the Nobel to Machado is a green light for regime change war on Venezuela, and then Cuba. But the decision is consistent with the Committee’s role as a soft power instrument of Western empire. Just recall its award to Obama at the beginning of his first term, granting him infinite legitimacy in advance of his destruction of Libya, escalation of wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, and facilitation of Gaza’s decimation. Given that nothing has happened in Machado’s career without the support and guidance of Washington, the Committee’s decision must be seen as the result of another Western op - a coup in Oslo to pave the way for one in Caracas.

The Nobel Prize @NobelPrize

8 months ago

BREAKING NEWS The Norwegian Nobel Committee has decided to award the 2025 #NobelPeacePrize to Maria Corina Machado for her tireless work promoting democratic rights for the people of Venezuela and for her struggle to achieve a just and peaceful transition from dictatorship to

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Here is how the AI bubble is being created, per Bloomberg:

I was studying other times in history when gold prices more than doubled in the reserve currency of the time, as they did in the past year: it's rare and almost always a sign of a profound loss of confidence in the existing monetary and political order, going all the way back to the Roman empire (the so-called "Crisis of the Third Century"). And it often marked the transition from one era of power to the next: the fall of Rome, Spain's decline from world power, the French Revolution and Terror, the end of Bretton Woods, etc. Interestingly, it's often actually as much a cause as a sign of these episodes, as this is effectively a transfer of real wealth from the poor to the rich elites who protect themselves with gold - this being what ignites the political upheaval. The weird aspect of the current episode is the relative silence around it: we're witnessing what may be one of the great pivotal moments in financial history yet it's being barely discussed.

The Kobeissi Letter @KobeissiLetter

8 months ago

BREAKING: Gold officially crosses above $4,000/oz for the first time in history. Gold is now worth ~$27 TRILLION.

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We are alarmed by reports that Germany is on the verge of a catastrophic about-face, reversing its longstanding and principled opposition to the EU’s Chat Control proposal which, if passed, could spell the end of the right to privacy in Europe. signal.org/blog/pdfs/germ…

The EU is once again trying to push a dangerous legislative proposal that undermines encrypted communication and obliterates our rights to private conversations. eff.org/deeplinks/2025…

Of COURSE the Bible commands us to support the modern state of Israel! It's right here in the good book, hang on. Aha! Exodus 20:13, "You shall not murder." Wait, hold on, that's not it. Here it is, Matthew 5:9, "Blessed are the peacemakers." Hang on, shoot, that's not the one. What I meant to say is Lamentations 2:19, "Lift your hands to him for the lives of your children, who faint for hunger at the head of every street." Ah, wrong one, lemme thumb through this a bit more. Got it! Proverbs 24:11, "Rescue those who are being taken away to death; hold back those who are stumbling to the slaughter." Wait, sorry, no, it's Psalm 101:7, "No one who practices deceit shall dwell in my house; no one who utters lies shall continue before my eyes." Oh no actually it's Proverbs 6:16-19, "There are six things that the Lord hates, seven that are an abomination to him: haughty eyes, a lying tongue, and hands that shed innocent blood, a heart that devises wicked plans, feet that make haste to run to evil, a false witness who breathes out lies, and one who sows discord among brothers." Oops, no, it's definitely not that one. Actually it's Deuteronomy 27:25, "Cursed be anyone who takes a bribe to shed innocent blood." No, dang it, that makes AIPAC recipients sound bad. Gimme a minute. Ah! Mark 12:31, "You shall love your neighbor as yourself." No, wait, got it! Here it is, Romans 14:19, "Let us therefore make every effort to do what leads to peace and to mutual edification." Oh no, that isn't the one I was looking for, it was Second Corinthians 13:11, "Strive for full restoration, encourage one another, be of one mind, live in peace. And the God of love and peace will be with you." Oh actually that one sounds kind of antisemitic in this context, gimme a sec. Got it! Ephesians 4:3, "Make every effort to keep the unity of the Spirit through the bond of peace." Hold on, that's not it either. The one I meant to cite was Hebrews 12:14, "Make every effort to live in peace with everyone and to be holy; without holiness no one will see the Lord." Oh boy, this really isn't going well. Lemme see... oh! James 3:18, "Peacemakers who sow in peace reap a harvest of righteousness." Gosh darn it, I made a mistake. The verse I meant to point to was First Peter 3:11, "They must turn from evil and do good; they must seek peace and pursue it." Wait, no, it was Galatians 5:22, "But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, forbearance, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, gentleness and self-control." Actually it was Luke 6:35-36, "But love your enemies, do good to them, and lend to them without expecting to get anything back. Then your reward will be great, and you will be children of the Most High, because he is kind to the ungrateful and wicked. Be merciful, just as your Father is merciful." Oops, no, nope. Man this is way harder than I thought it was going to be. Oh! Hey! Found it! It was right here in Genesis the whole time, chapter 12, verse 3: "I will bless those who bless you, and whoever curses you I will curse; and all peoples on earth will be blessed through you." There! See? It's right there in black and white. God's saying we are commanded to support a modern state that we created in 1948, no matter what it does. The Bible is entirely clear and unequivocal about this, and says absolutely nothing to the contrary. Checkmate, heathen.

One Trump-aligned billionaire family could end up controlling CBS News, CNN, and TikTok.

Spencer Hakimian @SpencerHakimian

9 months ago

*ORACLE, SILVER LAKE, ANDREESSEN TO CONTROL TIKTOK IN US

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"Honestly, the Israeli responses are becoming so boring," says Chris Sidoti, member of the UN commission, in response to criticism from the Israeli foreign ministry referring to the report as "fake" and relying on "Hamas falsehoods." Sidoti continued, "They say the same thing every time, but they're producing the responses by ChatGPT these days, and they spend so much money in the foreign ministry on propaganda, you'd think that they would actually come up with something original. I would want them to engage with the evidence, but they never engage with the evidence. The put the report into ChatGPT, and then they put out the standard response, so no one takes it seriously."

Israel Foreign Ministry @IsraelMFA

9 months ago

In response to the Pillay, Sidoti and Kothari Commission of Inquiry’s fake report: Three individuals serving as Hamas proxies, notorious for their openly antisemitic positions — and whose horrific statements about Jews have been condemned worldwide — released today another fake

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“It is clear there is an intent to destroy the Palestinians in Gaza through acts that meet the criteria set forth in the Genocide Convention.” UN Independent International Commission of Inquiry's report shows #Israel has committed #genocide in #Gaza. ohchr.org/sites/default/…

1/2 The #Israeli 'Ministry of Diaspora Affairs and Combatting Antisemitism,' led by @AmichaiChikli, gathers intelligence on the soil of friendly nations (e.g., @DutchMFA, @Ulkoministerio, @GreeceMFA, @francediplo_EN, @NorwayMFA, @GermanyDiplo) and disseminates a confidential weekly report. Sovereign countries should protest Israeli espionage and deliberate sabotage of the freedom of assembly and speech.

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There is one: genocide

UNRWA @UNRWA

2 years ago

There are no words.

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